01288nam a22002297a 4500 20240501154327.0 240501b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780099465935 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. ; 120395 : 22/04/2024 823 COE Coetzee, J. M. Waiting for the Barbarians / J.M. Coetzee. , London : Vintage Books , 2004. 169p. : 18cm. 969 For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. Fiction Novel Barbarians and the Empire J.M. Coetzee BOOK 61530 61530 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2024-05-01 International Book Distributors 969.00 823 COE 30143 2024-05-01 00:00:00 2024-05-01 BOOK